Glass Bottle Walls

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17) Wall Of Metal And Glass

18) Cordwood Wall

A wall made of cordwood and bottles. The glass bottles create a beautiful glow around the window. This photo can be found on Vitreosity.

19) Home From Bariloche, Patagonia

Manuel Rapoport has built a house in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina with 100% recycled ingredients. Tin cans for roofing and siding and merged whiskey bottles as windows. Go to www.designopatagonia.com for more information.

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Wow, Liking the idea of wrapping the bottles in metal flashing! There is an image on the Recycled glass bottles post under Art that shows two bottles combined. I’ll add the picture to this post as well. Hope you get to build your wall one day!

I was checking out 8 ghost towns in the US. Tge last one was the most fascinating. Its in Rhyolite, NV. I Googled for more photos which led me to your site. VERY, very cool. 🙂 Not only did I have fun seeing allk the ghost towns but digging deeper led me to some amazing uses of recycled bottles. So nicethat the creative, artsy, architectural part works so beautifully with GREEN!! 🙂

I really want to build a recycled wine bottle wall/buffet in my back yard as a first bottle project but I do not know what to use as ‘mortar’ between the bottles. I am having a hard time finding how to’s on the subject.

Hey, what a great site and collection of pictures. I have a blog about sustainable living and was wondering if you’d mind if I used some of your images for an entry on this topic. We’re planning on replacing our bathroom window with wine bottles!

I though i was the onely one to have such idéals and i am glad and pleased to see that’s am not the onely one. Everything is realisable. Thank you for collection all those beautyfull pictures!

Have all fun by constructing all your bottle walls or buildings. Like Cindy Haviland i think already a long time to build a Green house with glass bottle. I was onely searching what to use as mortar, and i found an interesting article on Wikipédia: ‘Bottle wall’ and much other informations are on the net too.

Can you recomend a site to look at the building process. I would like suggestions on how to set foundations and also how to build the glass bottle wall without a frame? Is this possible on an entire building or do you think it needs a frame. I am just about to start my first attempt. Completely love it. 🙂

What wonderful ways to take the ordinary and make it EXTRAordinary! This takes recycling to a whole new level, and shows that even a small project can bring light, beauty, and color while reducing our carbon footprint.

Hi! I want to add glass bottles to an existing wall for light. I want *ventilation* too. Has anyone used them that way? Open at the bottom, with plugs? If so, how did you handle closure? in fact, how do you handle closure when you use them the regular way? Any ideas about bottles and ventilation would be appreciated.

looking for what works best for bottles – I’ve used water putty which works great but is really expensive – does anyone know what kind of mortar to use to make the bottles stay in an upright position without the mortar slouching, bulging, and falling out before its set? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you. Char

While I love the idea of reusing, wouldn’t it be better to recycle these bottles? Glasse bottles are one of the ressources that can be constantly recycled no?

So, if we use these bottles to makes these beautiful walls… wouldn’t they need to produce new bottles, using more none-renewable ressource and causing more pollution than if we had recycled these bottles instead?